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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.


G. H. Hardy


#his #ideas #like #made #maker

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.


Charles Caleb Colton


#ends #like #magnificence #mathematics #nile

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.


Carl Friedrich Gauss


#demanded #doubt #equal #every #half

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.


Carl Friedrich Gauss


#certain #equally #every #exclusive #fault

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.


Nick Lampson


#always #better #better way #development #emphasize

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.


Andre Weil


#first #mathematicians #people #rate #second

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.


Maimonides


#branches #consequently #first #human #lastly

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.


James C. Maxwell


#between #determination #exact #exact science #founded

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.


James C. Maxwell


#complete #equipment #four #mathematician #may

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.


Jamie Murphy


#child #like #mathematics #music #nursery






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